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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does K. want to do about his assistants?
(a) Send them away.
(b) Send them to the Castle.
(c) Find them new jobs.
(d) Find them a separate place to live.

2. What is K.'s first reaction to the job offer?
(a) He negotiates for better pay.
(b) He says he'll have to think about it.
(c) He refuses it.
(d) He accepts it.

3. How likely does Frieda's mother say it is for K. to see Klamm?
(a) Very likely.
(b) Somewhat unlikely.
(c) Impossible.
(d) Certain.

4. What is K. asked to get out of Klamm's sleigh?
(a) Cognac.
(b) A riding crop.
(c) Klamm's spectacles.
(d) A music box.

5. Where does K. go when he arrives at the village?
(a) To the guard house to befriend the guards.
(b) To the inn to sleep.
(c) To the servants' entrance of the castle.
(d) To a friend's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many siblings does Barnabas have?

2. Who is waiting with the gentleman for K.?

3. Where are K. and his assistants living at the beginning of Chapter XI?

4. Who is the gentleman waiting for K. at the beginning of Chapter IX?

5. Who does Frieda say the assistants really want?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the chairman characterize the Castle's bureaucracy?

2. What reason does the landlady give K. that her conversation with him is important, and does her reason seem true, based on the conversation?

3. What does K. suspect about Frieda, at the end of Chapter XII?

4. What does K. ask Frieda about when he first meets her?

5. What happens when K. first wakes up the morning after meeting Frieda?

6. What does Klamm write about K.'s assistants, and how does this compare to the reality of K.'s assistants' roles?

7. What impression does Frieda make when K. first meets her?

8. How does K. react to the gentleman who comes to the coach while K. is there waiting?

9. What does K. believe is the reason that Hans and his family never received favors from Klamm?

10. What does K. call Artur and Jeremias and why?

(see the answer keys)

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